The art critic John Ruskin, a great admirer of Turner, described this as, "...the last oil he painted before his noble hand forgot its cunning." It is a re-working of an earlier picture and a ...

2025 was a significant year for Walker Art Gallery's collection. From a historic Impressionist painting entering a UK public collection for the first time, to contemporary works acquired through the ...

Fallon, 27, becomes youngest winner since 1957 with ‘If You Were Certain, What Would You Do Then?’ Walker Art Gallery and John Moores Painting Prize Trust have announced Ally Fallon as the winner of ...

Iconic designs by Vivienne Westwood, Mary Quant and Laura Ashley are being showcased in a new display celebrating costume, jewellery and decorative objects made by female designers. Creating Visions: ...

Every day objects can often have a significance that is overlooked. The sugar bowl, for example– most households have one, yet this humble object is a symbol of the incredible rise of the sugar trade ...

The Vertebrate Zoology collection includes 80,000 specimens of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, and is rich in specimens more than 150 years old. This is part of the Natural History ...

The Malpas, Knutsford and Poole Hoards are amazing Roman hoards that have been discovered in Cheshire by metal-detectorists, and reported to archaeologists through the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

Mary and the infant Christ on the donkey are being led on their nocturnal flight to Egypt by Joseph. They are fleeing from the massacre of all the male babies in Bethlehem organised by King Herod in ...

Cotman painted this romantic scene of rustic domestic life at the Black Boy Inn at Hurley on Thames. It shows a farmer (posed by the inn keeper) returning home for his meal, while his horse leans ...

FIHRM encourages museums that are engaging with sensitive or controversial human rights themes to share ways of working, new thinking and initiatives in a supportive environment.

'The Falling Warrior' is an abstract piece, yet Henry Moore was profoundly inspired by natural forms and made extensive studies of the human body. In this sculpture the human form is easily ...

House of Memories is a museum-led dementia awareness programme which offers training, access to resources, and museum-based activities to enable carers to provide person-centred care for people living ...